Short videos discussing the Wisdom of Fulton Sheen

Many people make the great mistake of aiming directly at pleasure; they forget that pleasure comes only from the fulfillment of a duty or obedience to a law–for man is made to obey the laws of his own nature as inescapably as he must obey the laws of gravity. A boy has pleasure eating ice-cream because he is fulfilling one of the “oughts” of human nature: eating. If he eats more ice-cream that the laws of his body sanction, he will no longer get the pleasure he seeks, but the pain of a stomachache. To see pleasure, regardless of law, is to miss it.

Change your entire point of view! Life is not a mockery. Disappointments are merely markers on the road of life, saying: “Perfect happiness is not here.” Though your passions may have been satisfied, you were never satisfied, because while your passions can find satisfaction in this world, you cannot.

Every earthy ideal is lost by being possessed. The more material you ideal, the greater the disappointment; the more spiritual it is, the less the disillusionment.

I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.

The Wisdom of Fulton Sheen…Memorial of St. Nicholas….It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.

“I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.” (Romans 7:15)

the Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.

Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.

But in a conflict between truth and darkness, truth cannot loose.

It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in a crisis is generally insensitive to the gravity of the tines in which it lives. Men do not want to believe their own times are wicked, partly because it involves too much self-accusation and principally because they have no standards outside of themselves by which to measure their times.

Deep sorrow does not come because one has violated a law, but only if one knows he has broken off the relationship with Divine Love.